Graham Lee returns to chat about what it takes to become a software centaur: using AI to get better at the craft, not just faster. We get into why the job was never about typing code, meat proxies and Jevons paradox, his catalog of interaction patterns for AI-augmented development, why a model shouldn't mark its own homework, and Axminster, his UML-based macOS app that gives LLMs a design to follow.

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  • Chiron Codex Agent Skills - GitHub
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers podcast
• Software Craftsmanship's Consulting Detective

Related Links

• Axminster: AI-Augmented Software Design
• Axminister - Mac App Store
• Patterns in AI Augmented Software Development - iOSDevUK
• Software Centaurs white paper (PDF)
• Reasons to dislike AI coding
• Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools
• Is spec-driven development the end of agile?
• Episode 64: Using Pattern Languages for Object-Oriented Programs
• Object-Oriented Programming the Easy Way

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